YAFW, Sunday edition
Whoops, back to the Republican War on Science:
The Big Bang is "not proven fact; it is opinion," Mr. Deutsch wrote, adding, "It is not NASA's place, nor should it be to make a declaration such as this about the existence of the universe that discounts intelligent design by a creator."Longer commentaries: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7. I have an opinion of Mr. Deutsch, but that will take too long to express. Do I feel better posting this? Well, it beats having fun writing more of the draft paper. Onward...
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe...." -- Albert Einstein
posted by TuringTest @ 3:34 PM
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Well, at least the Big Bang has less of a scientific consensus than evolution. We're better at figuring out how things happened when they were more recent and closer. Not that I believe that "let there be light" is a serious scientific competitor.
The term "Big Bang" is more of an...umbrella! It covers a wide range of speculation about the detials of the first fraction of a second.
After about the first second the rest of cosmology takes over and one can hypothesize about dark matter and energy while waiting for the data collection to improve.
Evolution has some similar details under debate, but the disciplines are too stylistically different for me to compare. The "true Christians" would attack to the Big Bang more, except their arena is high school science where the big bang (and physics) is not too important a subject.
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